Comic Title: Detective Comics #83
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: November 24, 1943 Copyright Date November 20, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.


Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 56
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Eighth Column"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Crimson Avenger (of Earth-2)

Artist: John Daly

Feature Character(s)

• Crimson Avenger (last appearance in Detective Comics #82; next appearance in Leading Comics #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wing (last appearance in Detective Comics #82; next appearance in Leading Comics #9)

Villain(s)

• Bells Tinkler and his gang (no further appearances)
• Blivins (an informant; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Al Spargo and Mr. Daniels (a reporter and an editor; no further appearances)
• Captain McCarthy (a police officer; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Lee Travis receives a tip from police that gangster Bells Tinkler will soon be apprehended. He sends Al Spargo, a reporter, to cover the story, then follows as the Crimson Avenger. When he arrives, Tinkler is prepared for the police having been tipped off about the raid. The Crimson Avenger is able to save the cops, but Tinkler and his gang escape.

The Crimson Avenger suspects Spargo has been working with Tinkler and tipped him off about the raid. He plans another trap, when he realizes that the phone of Lee Travis has been tapped. He follows a man he thinks is Spargo to the crooks and apprehends them. Then he learns that the spy was not Spargo, but a recently hired employee named Blivins.